is there a concept of the. central russia is reeling from friday's spectacular meteor strike that left over a thousand people injured and caused widespread damage and distress. rival rallies in egypt anti-government protesters once again clashed with police while hard line islamists march in support of the president and shari'a law accusing the opposition of inciting violence. and snubbed by his fellow republican senators that u.s. defense secretary nominee chuck hagel will be given another try but only after a week long insurance test of his and hawkish views.

from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the on line on the screen twenty four hours a day. people in russia's urals are recovering from the shock of the meteor that crashed to earth in the area on friday the space rock exploded in the sky creating a powerful shockwave and damaging hundreds of buildings including schools. well. you know. twelve hundred people have been injured as a result of the devastating explosion many of them children what is he going to

reports now from the affected region. thankfully the night passed quietly and without any incidents in chile of instance there were fears that more meteors were going to hit the area nothing of the kind happened but the consequences of friday's meteor are still quite a handful it's not only about shattered lots of old buildings were damaged as well like this factory there behind me where parts of the wall and roof just collapsed which is remarkable since we're around one hundred kilometers which is there are sixty miles away from where the media or fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around twenty dropped on hiroshima thankfully these explosions caused by the media were not accompanied by lethal radioactivity for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird a plane or superman but something much louder brighter faster and many times of war

terrifying to speak bright like shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by a media war flying over to god and breaking into three parts leaving a striking trail of smoke before vanishing just minutes later the city and the surrounding areas were literally rocked by a series of massive explosions. and. i immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him my phone and works. scared at that point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city of dallas but whatever you want them i was told that a plane crashed right into our building then we were told that a wall has been partly disloyal and metal structures inside of a bend by the blast wave it was very scary. maybe we're able to film the

honestly so naaman on a leader flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world and our t.v. documentary crew that was working in the area suddenly found themselves at the center of events to put up that we saw a huge tail in the sky like from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion but the feeling was like there are. we thought a military jets may have crashed or that it was some manmade disaster it was a relief to find out it was a natural phenomena anybody except over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly for pieces of shattered glass that one of the girls ran out to take pictures yes. and she was thrown in by the wave that came after the the flash and then we. my ears got blocked and the whole room you get got filled with dust just like like

a fog it's estimated the media as we need to varied from ten to forty tons and its speed of around twenty miles per second it gave it a huge amount of energy and made it very difficult to detect you know that there are telescopes networks operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos in russia and the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect the track asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know do to us what happened to the dinosaurs thankfully no one was killed this time and luckily the meteor didn't hit us with the cities including several nuclear sites located in the region. lawrence maxwell crawls from the school of earth and space exploration says this was an event of huge scientific interest. maybe there is an asteroids are commenting and then come from the outer

part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since the solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed by it but if some of that material can be recovered it will be incredibly interesting and important for scientists. just remind it auntie don't call me got

a special section on the exploding space rock on the havoc it wreaked log on to the exact timeline of the incident as well as more images and first hand accounts altie dot com. i. egypt is once again being shaken by burning buildings and stone throwing protesters were to gas and water cannon unleashed in response as rallies against the president and ruling is a must have routinely turned into clashes with riot police there in udaan rest began on the second anniversary of the country's revolt and has been taking place weekly since then this time however there was a massive rival rally organized by hard line islamists thousands gathered in cairo to show their support for president morsi and islamic law that is traitors lashed out at the opposition blaming them for violence that has taken at least seventy

lives in recent weeks and despite this display of loyalty to the current leadership many experts believe its days are numbered. what you've had in egypt in the last two years is in effect a coup by twelve percent it's the actual number of eligible voters who voted for the sharia constitution and that's the most of the brotherhood and the majority of the egyptians so they are dead set against any kind of shari'a constitution they want to have their democracy they want to be able to breathe openly and worship god in their own way and not be told what to do and now i think the interesting thing is what's happening in washington since leap second obama term began i think what we're seeing is on the obama have it that this entire muslim brotherhood experiment of the arab spring has turned out to be a catastrophe and they're pivoting their energies towards china and downgrading their support of groups like morsi so i think what's playing out now is the

brotherhood is finished in egypt i don't see any way that there's going to be a reconciliation and the people the people smell that this sense that they feel that and that's what's driving so even the brotherhood steps that are peacefully and respects the will the majority or we're going to have a very bloody ugly egypt. to libya now where unlike egypt rallies marking the two year anniversary since the anti gadhafi uprising broke out have been largely peaceful so far but fears about rest and violence are still strong as there was a mixed mood in the country ahead of official celebrations in benghazi the birthplace of the revolt a bomb exploded outside a police station but local media reported the attack was purely criminal and that any political motive this however is clearly a growing feeling of discontent over the power of militias the abundance of guns and a lack of government control political analyst explains what trends in post gadhafi libya threatening the country's future. what we have seen over the last two

years in libya is that this integration of any form of central control paving the way for the fragmentation of the country into three states at the same time there is around lawlessness in the country there is an outgrowth of fundamentalism of the criminals that has over and somali as we have seen over the last couple of months a little bit. more than two months and have the same time we have this but sort of . strife breaking out between the front militias and the country so yes a lot has changed but not for the better. chuck hagel will be given another shot at becoming the u.s. defense secretary after the senate returns from recess in less than ten days from now a stalling vote by hegel's fellow republicans saw him fall just short of landing a new job early this week he's going to check on has the details. those who blocked

the vote on chuck hagel nomination this thursday know very well that he will eventually be confirmed as defense secretary there are enough votes in the senate to confirm him but the stalling of the vote together with the humiliating treatment that the senators gave chuck hagel two weeks ago at his confirmation hearing this whole process is seen as a message all by itself those lawmakers showed that they could crush anyone who would allow themselves to dissent from washington's core foreign policy beliefs chuck hagel remarks at the confirmation hearing disappointed even his supporters during the hearing which to many seemed like. mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long going to exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had to take from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream

his use are the senators kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways and it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy basically intolerant of an ill targeted vision alternative song having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before it was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show. how eager many meeting in washington are to discuss new

wars without even having finished the old ones. assistant secretary of the us treasury under president reagan paul craig roberts told us how some of those previous comments about father against him she had. made a mistake some years ago when he said that he was an american senator not an israeli senator and this instant to come up the coast in the in the last presidential election in the united states already israeli prime minister. supported it. was a poor move the peace process for the war and heated president of the united states and a very demeaning way. and so obama now is answering back to the israeli prime minister by appointing a u.s. senator who did

a very very rare thing and asserted his independence. of the israeli government. u.s. authorities are planning to phone away every tweet sent in a huge. they're doing a lot of. killing people across the world. i think. priority but. the program. people in new york kind of interest is a necessary safeguard or a sinister form of snooping. to study the shaky global economy are being made at the g twenty gathering of finance heads here in moscow on the cracks within their ranks there's so much more.

technology. development around russia. it was a big. news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada.

there is a new big game against big brother being played across germany where activists a teaming up to destroy as many surveillance cameras as possible the players claim their message is serious and that they're protecting their privacy threatening a major protest later in the day. explores whether the actions of valid or just another form of vandalism. if you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you walking through the streets of the german capital they may be more to it than paranoia. the amount of sensitivity civilians on the rise and snot as bad as in other countries for example of the u.k. where millions of cameras are stored but still the number is rising and that's worrying us. that increase has seen some berliners take quite drastic action and

fight back against what they see as the invasion of their privacy the target for their fight the cameras themselves the phenomenon has even produced an online game cam over the rules are simple film yourself destroying c.c.t.v. cameras posted online and points rewarded to the amount of cameras smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is uneasy this more militants approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's while it's against things that's a form of protest we do not support of the we support the message. is contest will culminate in a protest ahead of the european police congress in berlin law enforcers fear the movement and its methods will only rise in popularity and public damage i don't think it's it's a group that is committing these crimes i think these are some people from the left

wing political corner they want others to compete with them to destroy cameras and what about allegations that the rise in c.c.t.v. coverage was turning berlin into an all well state no i don't think so i think we have a strict law that only personal belongings or the personal. ground you own can be protected by a camera you're not allowed to point the camera at a public street and so i don't think there's. big brother watching everybody or germany does. some very strict laws when it comes to personal image rights even global giants like google of how to censor the faces of anyone snapped on this street view service the advancements of things like smartphones and the amount of pictures taken and uploaded to the web every day is sure to make it even more

difficult for those who prefer to keep their anonymity the authorities deny that big brother is watching you in berlin however as the amount of c.c.t.v. in the city goes up it becomes increasingly difficult not to get caught on camera peter all over r.t. . over at our website an image of two palestinian children killed by israeli soldiers scoops the twenty twelve world press photo award but it turns out there are even more images doing the rounds on social networks and sparking mass outrage more than at an r.t. dot com. also online a russian man raids a mental health center to rescue his girlfriend claiming she was unfairly sectioned at the request of his mother find out who's in trouble now. the finance chiefs of the world's biggest economies have united in chorus against looming currency wars following high level talks in moscow for russia the gathering

is seen as a launch pad for its hosting of the g. twenty summit later this year on his lucy cover of takes a look at what sparked the currency battle talks in the first place and what's behind the apparent unity. japan is actually at the center of this crisis because of its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have led to a weakening of the yen basically in tough economic times one option that a country house is to artificially make the value of its currency worth a little bit less so for example making something like this twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means like printing money why would you want to do that because when you do you value your currency your manufacturing good your goods your exports become cheaper and that gives you a short term economic boost which is something that a lot of these countries europe the united states japan certainly desperately need in these tough economic times there are many problems with this approach but of course the biggest one is that when you start to do something your trading partners will say hey your stuff is cheaper i want to follow suit and do the same thing and

that results in a tit for tat economic clash that we know as a currency war what we're hearing right now is finance ministers essentially saying this currency war thing it's probably not going to happen does that mean that that's the case we don't quite know perhaps japan and other countries have gotten the message behind closed doors the other issue that a lot of experts have really brought up here is that there is no consensus in the g twenty on this issue because of internal divisions for example would you have us doing isn't really all that different from what the fed in the united states does which has been printing money furiously so there's really not a lot of incentive for countries to sort of get together and take a tough stance on this issue another battle that we've really seen emerge in these talks between the united states and europe over a stereo versus debt basically the europeans have been pushing for countries to stick to agreements that were decided upon several years ago to cut down borrowing and debt they think that this sort of tough austerity measures medicine is the kind

of thing that's going to help this economic crisis come to an end well countries like the united states and we in fact i've heard that the u.s. is blocking specifically this push they don't want to reduce their borrowing because they're heavily in debt and if they stop borrowing if they would do. there are deficits that could theoretically hurt unemployment and other sort of domestic internal issues. why some currency war tactics work for some and not for others that's discussed by ots financial gurus max kaiser and stacy herbert you can watch their full program later this hour here's a brief preview for you. everybody is doing it venezuela devalued recently by over thirty percent in the u.k. the pound has pound sterling has fallen by over ten percent against international currencies and yet their export market is up barely point one percent so it hasn't worked for them they showed up to a global currency war with their feet paper and it hasn't done anything for them you know if you show up to a gunfight with

a knife chances are you're getting out of your guts shot dead in the street like a dog show up to a currency war with paper like. these other central bank lands and you'll also be eviscerated gunned down in the street by the gold vigilantes and that's a good thing. because the report come you a little later today here in r.t. now to some other international news this hour police in pakistan said yes forty seven people to be killed and over a hundred injured in a suicide blast in the southwest of the country the blast in quite a record at a market in the shiite area of the city with officials saying it was a sectarian attack a spate of similar sorts against shiite communities have been carried out by hardline sunni militant groups this year. clashes have broken out in turkey between police and kurdish protestors on the fourteenth anniversary of the rest of the leader of the kurdistan workers' party known as the p.k. k.

demonstrations took place in several provinces across the country security forces used water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds in kenya has known for four kurdish autonomy demanding greater political and cultural rights. in a world update britain's food standards agency says the number of people who've unwittingly eaten horse meat will never be known agency says that just over one percent of products tested recently for horse d.n.a. in response to the crisis had shown positive results the meat industry is under intense scrutiny across the european union after tests last month showed the presence of horse and pig in beef products. now cameras and other kinds of surveillance across the u.s. give its citizens the feeling of having less and less privacy but it seems what you've done in the past also won't be forgotten as the library of congress is now creating a database of all tweets ever posted there often as took to the streets of new york to find out whether the government is once again showing too much interest in

people's private lives. the library of congress announced that it's storing our tweet is this just another method of surveillance or is it a way of archiving the times this week let's talk about that did you know that our government is starting to store all of our tweets they're archiving them in the library of congress not surprised you're not surprised by that now why not they're quite everything are you ok with that no absolutely not. so do we do about it you know i don't know because they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do it i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still a point that they should stop there and yeah it's just another way that they can surveil us right yeah but i think how would you feel about your government storing

all those tweets that scares me the so of that because i mean like you could tweak things i mean i've talked to a for about three years now and i kind of member what we had back then if they can find out and just kind of see what it was that's quite scary have you ever tweeted something that you might not want stored for all time usually a tweet recipes and food related things so i'd love it if this story. i mean those are really surprised the truck your facebook and they track everything you do a lot i mean they have the right so they stay along as the invention was five it is doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use it not as a way to surveil you or invade your privacy you know i believe they're mean what more can they do i mean if you know if you put stuff on do that you don't want to be out there that you shouldn't do with where you should just keep your private stuff so you should put on trial and all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweets is an invasion of privacy the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be listening.

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called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as the military helicopters participate in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that year old soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four all made it a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training to kill anyways knock off the terror trainings but that's just

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